On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 05:32, John Levon wrote: > On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 05:29:28AM +0930, Darren Freeman wrote: > > > Ahem! Well if the code you got came from Motorola TCG then I wouldn't > > blame you for booting me right now... But before you do, I was working > > at MASC where we operated at CMM level 4 (level 5 was the goal). > > So did we, contracted out to Motorola Cork. At least in my experience > that CMM stuff was a joke. Kind of like ISO 9001 :)
Well as of November last year when I finished, we took it pretty seriously. That was Motorola Australia Software Centre (MASC) by the way, the code I got from other places was pretty horrible. Yes, CMM doesn't refer to the code itself but the organisation producing the code. By the time you get to CMM level 4 though, you've got some pretty hardcore software engineering going on. I had to sit through code reviews in which the member of our team least likely to understand anything written in C would go through reading every single line of code and ask you what it meant. By the end, if you had any ego left in you it was badly beaten ;) But it got the point across. People with no idea will try to read your code, it had better work *and* be readable. > > You could _understand_ our code on the first inspection =) > > I don't think this has *anything* to do with CMM, which is mostly form > filling afaics. No comment =) > > Apart from unexplained lockups of my box, at the same place scrolling > > the same document, it's OK now on my disc. I can't see how scrolling > > could lock up my box, but I suspect the pre-1.0 xforms I have *might* > > have something to do with it. Again, locking up GNU/Linux isn't an easy > > thing to do, but... ? > > Well it's definitely not lyx/xforms fault - it should just crash itself, > at worst :) That's what I thought. But my system was rock solid before I added libxforms and libXpm from the web. Only ever crashed twice, doing the same thing in LyX. Dazed and confused. Shaken, but not stirred. > regards > john Have fun, Darren
